This paper seeks to promote the need to have a good strategy to get our patients off the ventilator with rationale. Rather than just a, ‘what you feel like at the time’, approach.

New Sepsis Guidelines

Source Control in Sepsis Urgent or Not So Fast?

Here is an interesting take on the mantra that is…get in there as quick as possible to improve outcomes in sepsis with known source. Do we wait a bit and medically treat, or do we take out the source at surgery? The authors also seem confused by the surprising results!

Other articles of interest!

Let’s inhale a bit of Special K!

Seems this versatile drug can be successfully inhaled now…for what exactly, I’m not sure yet? Wonder if you could reduce a shoulder in the ED with this approach…sniff this space!